'It fell apart because he was Fergie's boy' | Gary Neville & Teddy Sheringham on David Beckham

that partnership with beckham i mean can you can you give us a sense of how you know you're obviously very very close friends as well and maybe that's a part of it but it was telepathic pretty pretty early on given the hours and hours and hours how did you work it out between you it was just telepathic it got to the point where i knew it got to the point maybe where perhaps the opposition in the end knew what we were going to do before we got it as well but certainly in around that sort of 96 to 99 we were catching a lot of teams out in europe purely through me being a decoy um you know he was the best passer and deliverer of a ball i've ever seen you know i look at the broader now and i think he's similar just in that right channel even feeding it into the striker's feet was unbelievable and then your runs would start because once you get into the striker's feet you were in business because then the center midfield players are running back the y players are running back that they're they're disorientated of where they are on the pitch you start to make basically your runs forward he'd get the ball i'd go around he'd get a yard he'd cross it or if the left back started to go close to him he'd pass it back past the left back to me i'd stop it and then roll it back to him for him to cross it and you couldn't stop it you just couldn't you literally couldn't stop it for about three four years um and it was telepathic but it's the same i think with everything i knew what skulls he was going to do when dennis had the ball and he was about to pass it into skullsie i knew my runner to start because i knew full well he'd look over his shoulder and then that switch was coming to bex and i'd be on my way and it's the same problem with teddy in terms of the sort of movements of where he was going to be if i was going to hit the second striker in particular there were patterns that you just established and interestingly in that game we played 18 months ago or 15 months ago the treble reunion game those patterns were still there in that gate they were still there you still think you know that's what you do when these play when you're playing with these players was it uh surreal to watch your best friend or very close friend not that any man united player is anonymous clearly but was it surreal to watch beckham become this phenomenon like in in fame terms it it just uh i don't know really um yes it is now when you think now how big he is in the world but do you ask me he always when i'm when i joke before about the ferrari he always had to he always had to have he always had his mind that he had to be the very best at everything he had to set a standard he had to uh set a trend so if it was either his hair or it'd be fashion or his car you know we got we all got given club cars at the age of 18 19. i swapped my prelude which was a sports car for a honda accord scolsi and butter kept the prelude but he actually added leather and the bold speakers to his and made it the best prelude in the carpet yeah so he always had that sort of edge whereby he he wanted to be a star and he knew he wanted to be do things beyond football and be on united and i look back now at the time i was disappointed when he left because i thought united would always be there for him but when you think that he played for real madrid uh paris saint-germain ac milan la galaxy and you look at the experiences he's had and who he's played with there's no doubt he's done the right thing because he's obviously got an unbelievable you know his experience what experience he's had just by being bold enough and courageous enough to do the things he didn't leave united which none of us would ever have done we'd never have left our home city our hometown but he loved united but he knew that he had to basically experience the world and i always felt that was to be fair something i never appreciated probably in him until after i finished i went to say watch him at real madrid i went to watch him in uh in paris so i went over to say miami a few weeks ago and you think he's got a football club and this stadium is unbelievable the training center's out of this world and you think he's he's built that he's done that himself which is something that really is a massive achievement teddy you were coming in to say it was a bit surreal without a doubt i mean i i knew him from you know breaking into the england squad uh at a young age you know and and to see him grow from this young lad i mean people see different people differently and and gaz and becks were two young lads when i when i first met them around the england time and me joining united and they were they were young kids setting out on the world of football to to become better players so to see him not outgrow united because you can't outgrow united but to see him go on to bigger and better things than united and then to just be you know not just european wide but worldwide globally that is a star wherever he goes he's just ridiculous really that that young boy from chingford that that would just go on to the world stage as if he owned it he's just i know people have got to come from somewhere everyone says oh this young lad from where or this little girl from there you've got to come from somewhere but um for him to go on to to become this this world icon is you know once you've been around him as a young boy is quite surreal really yeah when i look at him now and i think joe something he actually even if you go to his house the design is immaculate you know if you just think about the other clothes he wears or the design of his house or the way in which he looks he just to me he's like um he's got immaculate standards and that was in his football as well the way in which he struck a ball and pinged the ball the technique was just perfection it was like you know most football players can pingable but when some players do it it just travels in such a way that looks absolutely perfect and his technique and his the design of his game design of everything that he did around him is it is it's incredible quality and talent he has and even to this day when you see me mesmerizes you really what he does yeah without doubt and you you mentioned in the cup final there the champions league final we we definitely i know he wanted to play center midfield more often didn't he but when you took him off that right side i wouldn't say right wing because he wasn't a right winger a right-sided midfield player when you took him away from that area we lost something massively and when england played him in central midfield we lost something massively because he had a way of just feeding the ball in or curling it or bending it or drilling it or chipping it every he could do everything with that right foot and you know that if the defender was stopping one pass he would be able to find you with a different pass or he would look at you to say do something else because i can find you somewhere else and it would just you know that like you guys said that last ten minutes of the final oh hold on you know this is this is where we work from on this right side and and things came from there if memory serves i think you tried to shove him off that free kick against greece in the last couple of minutes at old trafford yeah so uh it's we're losing 2-1 again against greece for in a was it a qualifier or uh yeah was it the last game in the the league anyway we knew we needed i thought we still needed to win the game anyway so the the free kick comes about i i won the free kick and and it comes at 20 yards out and he'd already had about six free kicks and he did it rosette row t he did he hit the wall he'd shanked one and it was like bex fix i'll have this one and he looked at me and went ted you can't even reach for me get in the wall and i was like yeah okay you've probably got a point there and you and uh got myself in the wall and watched it fly over into the top corner and it was just i've seen it a million times why was i even thinking about doing it i could hit one every 25 he could eat it 21 of 25 on a good day and you knew that you know he found his range if you want anyone on a free kick like that leave it to him because you saw him practicing every day for that moment that that's what he did he was our free kick specialist at the time let him on it and what uh what a uh what a way to to get through to the world cup yeah gary just the last one on him i mean it's even it's such a different time even but like remember like he wears a sarong and it's like front page news and you know maybe because the way it ended you feel at some point he started on a collision course with alex ferguson who didn't like everything that went with the fame was there an atmosphere in the dressing room of here pull your neck in you know that the hair and the the building the brand like that's not what we're about i'm thinking roy keane and others you know there was at the time there was that because he was uh he was tweaking the tail of the tiger basically you know he was um you knew that if he wore something or if he is his hair was slightly different or if he wore a cap in a team meeting but do you know something you think about individuality the real problem i think that the boss had was that it was because it was one of the young lads so for instance if it had been say eric cantona or sometimes dwight came in wearing a cap or maybe teddy had a ferrari that was okay because they'd been brought into the club and then they were sort of different because he knew known back since he was 13 there was almost like this parental thing that sort of like it was he was going rogue um he wasn't he was the most hard-working disciplined professional loved the club you know was obsessed with football but he wanted to do some things outside of you know he was completely different than me he's completely different than skulls he was completely different than butty um completely different than other lads in the change room he would wear different things but he was always like that and i think that to be fair now we'd see it as individuality we'd see it as character and personality the ability to be able to do something that's different you don't want everybody to be the same so i think there was just a clash maybe that just purely down to um the fact that the boss saw him as being you know his boy from from you know that he had in the change room at 13 when he used to come to the games and with his dad and his mum and when the when he's 23 24 you know it it's it's different and bex was growing up um and i think he always wanted to go and play at real madrid or barcelona and just great clubs in europe as well he always wanted those experiences so i think it worked out for both in the end but i think that the respect there was enormous between them both um and it was just a case of like say sometimes i'd be sort of there thinking oh that's going to annoy the boss and you just know it was coming but then there's nothing you could do about it because it was just basically him being in his own individual character and what he is

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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 04 2020